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  • I contend that Singularities, Black Holes or what I call Gravitational Infinities, spring into existence even out here in the 'Boonies'.

    The Fermi Paradox: Where are they? Stephen D. Covey 2008

  • Now, I am somewhat familiar with the reference he cites: “Black holes: The membrane paradigm”, edited by Thorne, Price, and MacDonald, but I am not familiar enough with the particular paper he citing, “Gravitational Interaction of a Black Hole with Distant Bodies” (by Hartle, Thorne, and Price) to know which “exact metric” he is referring to.

    Objections to Kaku and Liu’s “How to Time Travel?” 2009

  • Gravitational force is actually a bending of spacetime.

    The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

  • Gravitational and Polar concerns have been raised by a number of climate historians who are aware that the north and south pole have exchanged polarity many times in the life of the planet and severe solar upheavals could trigger a magnetic polarity shift again, with resulting violent cataclysmic events.

    Godzilla Stock | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Now, I am somewhat familiar with the reference he cites: “Black holes: The membrane paradigm”, edited by Thorne, Price, and MacDonald, but I am not familiar enough with the particular paper he citing, “Gravitational Interaction of a Black Hole with Distant Bodies” (by Hartle, Thorne, and Price) to know which “exact metric” he is referring to.

    Bad Language: Metric vs Metric Tensor vs Matrix Form vs Line Element 2009

  • To the points about “Black Hole” as a name for a Gravitational Singularity and its surrounding event horizon: I have heard tell that one objection to the term was that it translated into a French vulgarism for vagina.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Big Bang” 2010

  • Gravitational theory” is our explanation of the phenomenon we know as gravity.

    Think Progress » Wallace Responds To Cokie Roberts’ Criticism By Joking About Her Watching Kristol Crawl Around In A Dog Collar 2010

  • The British-German team behind the GEO600, which includes scientists from the School of Physics and Astronomy's Gravitational Physics Group, will now carry out new experiments in the coming months to yield more evidence about Craig Hogan's assumptions.

    missive from the sickbed sfeley 2009

  • Gravitational radiation, however, never thermalizes, and this appears to be responsible for the normal derivative to the Weyl curvature, which triggers the formation of massive particles in the next cycle.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

  • Now, I am somewhat familiar with the reference he cites: “Black holes: The membrane paradigm”, edited by Thorne, Price, and MacDonald, but I am not familiar enough with the particular paper he citing, “Gravitational Interaction of a Black Hole with Distant Bodies” (by Hartle, Thorne, and Price) to know which “exact metric” he is referring to.

    “Test of relativistic gravity for propulsion at the Large Hadron Collider” 2009

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